catfish are tricky |
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| Date Added: May 30, 2009 06:53:21 PM | |
| Author: dave | |
| Category: Catfish | |
| Blues, Channels, & Flathead catfish are mostly nocturnal feeders so knowing this will help you locate fish during the day in winter as well .... the fish will be deep most likely or on the shaded side of rock bluffs or ledges. At night they'll move out into flats to feed. I have caught a lot of flathead lately during and just after cold fronts move through. Catching them on fresh cut bait (shad heads). The shad were all still alive when I'd cut their heads off and put them on ... the flatheads were biting really fast on them Oct 3rd, 4th, & 5th. I started fishing for them a little bit and caught a lot of nice ones. Then after the front is pretty much played out they quit biting shad heads .... go figure. If you're goin after flathead in the winter on rod&reel all I can say is "Good Luck". Areas to target flats vary greatly from cement structure to sand/gravel flats ... my most productive areas are around crappie structure or sand/gravel flats where a lot of bluegill or crappie congregate. Catfishing, The crappie structure is best for daylight flathead fishing as the flats seem to lay up under the crappie structure placed there by crappie fishermen to attract crappie ... I fished these with really good success during the daylight hours by placing a fluttering bluegill directly under the crappie structure by dragging it around the cedar trees. I got hung up a lot but also caught a lot of flats like this. you can find more info here> http://catfishingtips.host22.com/ | |
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